The latest offering from Moonbot Studios is a gorgeous homage to Fritz Lang's Metropolis bundled up in a children's story about a world where the alphabet has not yet been invented, and everything is communicated through numbers.

Congratulations to the following five winners of the iOS App Giveaway contest who each posted a comment about their geek dad activities over the holidays.  The giveaway apps include two copies of the holiday-themed DC Super Friends: Race to Save Christmas as well as one copy of  Scooby-Doo: The Apple Thief and two copies of Scooby-Doo: ...

ScrollMotion and Warner Bros. are offering up five GeekDad readers a free iOS app from their interactive app library. The free apps include two copies of the holiday-themed DC Super Friends: Race to Save Christmas as well as one copy of  Scooby-Doo: The Apple Thief and two copies of Scooby-Doo: Fall ...

Now through January 8, 2012,  all the Viz manga titles available on Vizmanga.com and the free Viz Manga app for the iPad and iPod will be discounted up to twenty percent. The regular prices range from $4.99 to $9.99. Included in the discounted books are ‘speed-ups’ of titles that will ...

With the holidays in full swing and stores brimming with crazed parents scrambling to pickup the hottest toys, we thought we’d take a break from the Mall Madness and Plastic Pandemonium to propose a saner, greener, cheaper, and uniqu(er) alternative: a Digital Toy Box. Sure, mobile phones and tablets are ...

Looks like smartphones are the new baby monitors – there are a number of super popular apps on pretty much all smartphone platforms that allow parents to use their phones as baby monitors. No surprises there ... we all carry around smartphones these ...

You’re looking at an item on Amazon, trying to remember how much it was when you saw it in a store two weeks ago. Is Amazon’s price better? Maybe. Unless it’s a toy, in which case, my experience suggests: probably not. But the good news is that there are ways ...

Following up on Jonathan’s post a few days back, I’ve got a handful of apps that were graciously provided to me by their developers recently and that I’m anxious to share with you. The apps below have all been tested by Decker, my four-year-old son — I’ll be providing some ...

Hogworld: Gnart’s Adventure is an adventure game app for children aged 4 to 8 years, and it is brilliant. It is effectively an interactive storybook like none we have seen. Think back to your childhood and all those hours playing games like King’s Quest and other predominantly text-driven adventure games. Now ...

The boys and I have been experimenting with all sorts of creative mediums like water colors, oil pastels, markers, crayons, and clay. We’ve also made a picture or two from Apps on my phone and the boys love seeing color … Continue reading →